•reFtlietftpic would admit i>f it, he never 

 failed to t^ive an air of chterfuIiiCKS to his 

 remarks. On my mentioning the activity 

 of the admiral in superinteiidin(; the rt- 

 pairs at Longtvoort, and tliat it would 

 prohabiy be reddy to receive Itim in the 

 course of a i4)i>nth;— he replied, T'jur 

 gdniirai knoiv*, I doubc not, to a mo- 

 ment, in what time a ship may be got 

 rearlv, but, as an architect, I think his 

 calculiitions will fail.— I maintained, 

 however, that, whether it was upon land 

 or sea, Sir Geor^ie Cockburn was of a 

 character that would ensure success in 

 tvhatever he might be called up>>n to un> 

 4JertHke.-r-I added, (hat the officers were 

 actually employed in accompanying tiie 

 seamen to Longwood, with the materials 

 necessary for its completion. He then 

 enquired after those gientlemen whose 

 flames he endeavoured to recollect:; and 

 expressed a wish to see them as they 

 passed : ♦* if," said he, f ' they will be 

 contented to visit ine as you now do, in 

 the fields; as my present habitation, 

 which serves m,e for breakfast, dinner 

 und bedrooni, is not precisiel/ c^icuja^ec) 

 (O^receivfi pdiF^pany." 



1». ■ iNOTHER*ISIT. 



«i In a few days after, the arrival of a 

 ship from England induced me to take a 

 ride to the valley ; and, un my return in 

 tlie evening, I was informed, that Na- 

 poleon desired to see me in General 

 Gourgond's apartment as soon as I re- 

 tfiraed; and there I found him waiting 

 for ine. On my entrance, the first ques- 

 tioD related to the progress of the ge- 

 aeral's disorder: when he suddenly 

 changed the subject— r" You have been 

 at the town, and is the ship just arrived 

 from England—if so, I suppose she 

 brings letters and news^-papers. — ^Cer- 

 tainly; and I have looked over a file of 

 the Courier.— Is there no Morning 

 Chronicle? — I have not yet seen it. The 

 oilier papers which I just had a glimpse 

 of, were the Times, and a provincial 

 p»per. — Vyiiat IS the news from France ? 

 -r^Idid butslightlyglanceoverthe French 

 news. — Be that as it may, you remember, 

 I suppose, soiTiething of what you rend; 

 to let me hear it. — I saw some articles 

 vespt-cting ypu; but the principal part of 

 of the French news which 1 had the op- 

 portunity of exaiqining, relaied to the 

 trial and sentence of IVJarshal Ney. 

 ; Napoleon now advanced a step nearer 

 to nie, but with')Ut the least change of 

 counrenance: — " What," said he, ♦■ Mar- 

 flial Ney lias been sentenced to be shut !" 

 7—1 replied, " it was even so : he ad- 

 ilrceied ib« miiiisters gf the allied tuve- 



Wariet^i Let ten on "Sa^foflt. 5^f 



reign?, but in vain: he urged iii hi&i^d- 

 feiice Ihe twctfth article of the Conviu^ 

 tion: he pleaded on his triid iIimi he wtif 

 deceived by you^ that the proclamaiioi^ 

 of which he was accused, and iiiiule a 

 part of the charges ai^ain^t him, was 

 written by Major General Beririind; du4 

 that he was deceived hy your report iriif 

 Austria and England.''— .Count BoriraiML 

 *vho was in the room, quietly observed, 

 that Marshal Ney had a right t<> save 

 himself if he could; and, if fabricate^ 

 stories would answer liis purpose, h^ 

 could not he blamed for employin:: t'l^fli* 

 But he added, *♦ respecting the prodi- 

 niation, it was an assertiiiii equally false 

 and ridiculous: Marshal Ney could writ^ 

 himsc'i, and wanted not my assistance,'* 

 Napoleon made nn comments on the ac- 

 count which had been given him.— Oii^ 

 solitary expression, indeed, br^ike friNMr 



him, and that was, " Marshal Nc-y wa>_;^ 

 brave mtjn." ' . 



I ojeniioned a report, as stiPed in ont 

 of the London papers, tirat srn apprtheji- 

 sion vvi)S entertained of an insurrectuni'in 

 Paris, qn the event of Marsha! Ney*^ 

 sentence being car; ied into execution.-^ 

 'f All insurrection,*' said Napoleon^ whW 

 akindofcontelnptuoiiscalmofss, ''pugli J' 

 get the troops under arms! Has fh^ 

 puke of Weiliiiaton left Paris?— ^I reail^' 

 do not know,— Are the Eii;;lish and 

 allied forces still in the vicinity of ili^, 

 capital ?-r-The English, I believe, ard" 

 still in its neighbourliDod ; but it apjieariL 

 from the papers, that the Russians i(iii^ 

 Prussians have retired upon the Kiiih^. 

 That disposition of them, he replied,'"iih 

 altogether the most proper — But hiiw"5 

 it, (he continued) that,amoii{4 the paji^rj^ 

 which are sent for my perusal, I so Sef* 

 dom see the Mfiniing Chronicle. Tlua 

 was a question which 1 did not prereiid 

 to answer. I thought proper, however; 

 to inform him, with some little curiusit* 

 to see how he would receive the intelli- 

 gence, trifling as it may app^ar, that, ac-^ 

 cording to the papers, a Parisian huif 

 been sentenced to pay a fine for publish^ 

 ing a caricature in which he was repie,* 

 sented. lie perinitte«l me to describe ir, 

 which I did in the language of the para- 

 graph, — "On one side of the print ap. 

 pearcd the figure of Louis XVlIf. sur- 

 rounded by his family, with the inscrip- 

 tion, 'This is well;' and on ^lie otlxjf 

 side, that of Nap leon attended by hit 

 family, with the motto, 'This is belter.'.-^ 

 I'ugh!" said he, "what non^ensf ! but 

 such trash will be propagated, from snni^ 

 idle motive or wtlier:" and »<ith this oli. 

 tervatiun lie retired to his npartment. 



